Domestication Gone Wild offers a revisionary exploration of domestication as a narrative, ideal, and practice that reveals how our relations with animals and plants are intertwined with the politics of human difference.

Acknowledgments  vii Introduction. Naming the Beast—Exploring the Otherwise / Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Heather Anne Swanson, and Gro B. Ween  1 Part I. Intimate Encounters: Domestication from Within 1. Breeding with Birds of Prey: Intimate Encounters / Sara Asu Schroer  33 2. Pigs and Spirits in Ifugao: A Cosmological Decentering of Domestication / Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme  50 3. Dog Ears and Tails: Different Relational Ways of Being with Canines in Aboriginal Australia and Mongolia / Natasha Fijn  72 4. Farm Animals in a Welfare State: Commercial Pigs in Denmark / Inger Anneberg and Mette Vaarst  94 5. Ducks into Houses: Domestication and Its Margins / Marianne Elisabeth Lien  117 Part II. Beyond the Farm: Domestication as World-Making 6. Domestication Gone Wild: Pacific Salmon and the Disruption of the Domus / Heather Anne Swanson  141 7. Natural Goods on the Fruit Frontier: Cultivating Apples in Norway / Frida Hastrup  159 8. Domestication of Air, Scent, and Disease / Rune Flikke  176 9. How the Salmon Found Its Way Home: Science, State Ownership, and the Domestication of Wild Fish / Gro B. Ween and Heather Anne Swanson  196 10. Wilderness through Domestication: Trout, Colonialism, and Capitalism in South Africa / Knut G. Nustad  215 Provocation. Nine Provocations for the Study of Domestication / Anna Tsing  231 Contributors  252 Index  255

“What do Pacific salmon, British falcons, pine trees everywhere, Ifugao pigs and spirits, and Norwegian apples have in common? They perform ‘domestication’ in ways certain to change the narratives and politics of domestication for scholars of whatever discipline and for critter people all over the earth. Read this book for up-to-the-minute, deeply researched, very smart, contentious takes on the shapes of conjoined humans and nonhumans living and dying together in diverse histories of civilization, colonialism, capitalism, times-past, and times-yet-to-come. Perhaps what opens up in this book are real possibilities for caring more materially in urgent times.”